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Arrest in fatal stray bullet shooting of Long Island girl

Dejah Joynera was shot and killed without warning when a bullet meant for someone else hit the seventh grader in the head back on October 16th. Over the weekend, authorities announced that an arrest has been made in the case.

Dejah Joynera was shot and killed without warning when a bullet meant for someone else hit the seventh grader in the head back on October 16th. Over the weekend, authorities announced that an arrest has been made in the case.

Posted: Jan 10 2016 06:01PM EST

Updated: Jan 10 2016 06:02PM EST

HEMPSTEAD, N.Y. (AP) — Police on Long Island have made an arrest in the killing of 12-year-old girl shot by a stray bullet that came through her home's window.

Nassau County Police say 20-year-old Jakwan Keller arrested Sunday in Hempstead on murder, criminal use of a firearm and weapons possession charges. Information on his lawyer was not immediately available.

Dejah Joyner, a seventh-grader, died Oct. 17, a day after she was shot in the head when a bullet pierced through a plate-glass window at her family's Hempstead home.

Police say the Hempstead man was taken into custody while driving a 2013 BMW in Hempstead. Officers with the Hempstead Police Department assisted with the arrest.

The Hempstead Board of Education released a statement Sunday expressing their gratitude to the Nassau County Police Department.